Personification Worksheet Personification: a figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human traits or characteristics. Name: Reuben Directions: In each sentence, an object or idea is personified. Identify the object or idea that is
being personified and explain which human trait or action is applied to the object or idea.
1. The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest.
What is being personified? The wind
Which human trait or quality is given? Whispered
2.The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers.
What is being personified? The flowers
Which human trait or quality is given? Happy
3. As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.
What is being personified? The sun
Which human trait or quality is given? Beat
4. Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.
What is being personified? Time
Which human trait or quality is given? Crawled
5. The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
What is being personified? His chainsaw
Which human trait or quality is given? Sang
6. When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.
What is being personified?The shiny pairs of high heels
Which human trait or quality is given? Called out
7. When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains.
What is being personified? Freedom
Which human trait or quality is given? Rang
8. As Alice searched for her missing pencil, she said sarcastically, “Well, I guess it just walked off of my desk.” She looked at her classmates accusingly.
What is being personified? Her pencil Which human trait or quality is given? Walked
9. Kelly was so happy that Tom and she were moving in together, but when she walked into her new residence, she dropped her suitcase. She had never seen the inside of the house which Tom’s grandmother had given them, and though she was grateful to receive such a nice gift, the ugly yellow wallpaper in the kitchen screamed at her. She knew she would have a lot of work to do to make her new house livable.
What is being personified? The ugly yellow wallpaper Which human trait or quality is given? Screamed
10. William knew that he shouldn’t have eaten the last cookie out of the cookie jar. He knew that his father loved to eat chocolate chip cookies after work, but William ate the last one anyway. Now as he waited for his father to come home, guilt poked and chewed at William. As delicious as the cookie was, William now wished that he had never opened that cookie jar.
What is being personified? Guilt Which human trait or quality is given? Poked and Chewed
say that Dan is a giant. Use a metaphor to describe somebody who is:
He is as tall as a giraffe
Hamish is a kind dog
Korban is a fast cheater
Braydon is a slow turtle
Reuben is a smart robot
Joebob is a fat pig
Quinn is a sneaky mouse
Quinnton is a angry tiger
I'm a beautiful Lamborghini
Levi is a ugly pug dog
Taylah is a stubborn pig
Dave is a short munchkin
He is a thin twig
silly: bob is a dweeb
scared easily: Shelby is a chicken
Similes are a way to compare two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’. For example, if I want to say that somebody swims well, I can say they swim like a fish because fish swim well. There are two basic patterns that you can use.
verb + like + noun
She swims like a fish.
He looks like an ogre.
She plays like a pro.
He walks like a duck.
She acts like a fool.
as + adjective + as + noun
He is as tall as a giant.
She is as fast as a rocket.
He is as graceful as a swan.
She is as sneaky as a fox.
He is as quiet as a mouse.
How could I say that somebody:
runs fast: He runs as fast as a cheater
is pretty: She is as pretty as a pig
jumps well: He jumps like a jumping bean
is strong: He as tough as a door
How could I say that something:
is hard:Its as hard as rock
feels soft: Its as soft as a sponge
is sweet
feels rough
is heavy
sounds noisy
is light
Tuesday 14 June WALT- use our senses to help describe an object
My marshmallow is shaped like a volcano with a light dusting of snow on the top.
My marshmallow smells like a perfume used by angles in heaven and a whole mound of sugar bigger then the salt one in the mount.
Personification: a figurative language technique where an object or idea is given human traits or characteristics.
Name: Reuben
Directions: In each sentence, an object or idea is personified. Identify the object or idea that is
being personified and explain which human trait or action is applied to the object or idea.
1. The wind whispered through the dark and gloomy forest.
What is being personified? The wind
Which human trait or quality is given? Whispered
2.The gardener lovingly added the manure to his crops believing he was making happy flowers.
What is being personified? The flowers
Which human trait or quality is given? Happy
3. As we walked through the scorching desert, the sun beat down on us.
What is being personified? The sun
Which human trait or quality is given? Beat
4. Time crawled as Tim sat in the hot detention room painfully watching the clock tic.
What is being personified? Time
Which human trait or quality is given? Crawled
5. The lumberjack leveled the many trees into a clearing and his chainsaw sang its deadly song.
What is being personified? His chainsaw
Which human trait or quality is given? Sang
6. When Monica walked through the shoe store, each shiny pair of high heels called out to her.
What is being personified?The shiny pairs of high heels
Which human trait or quality is given? Called out
7. When the patriots defeated the redcoat army, freedom rang across the fruited plains.
What is being personified? Freedom
Which human trait or quality is given? Rang
8. As Alice searched for her missing pencil, she said sarcastically, “Well, I guess it just walked off of my desk.” She looked at her classmates accusingly.
What is being personified? Her pencil
Which human trait or quality is given? Walked
9. Kelly was so happy that Tom and she were moving in together, but when she walked into her new residence, she dropped her suitcase. She had never seen the inside of the house which Tom’s grandmother had given them, and though she was grateful to receive such a nice gift, the ugly yellow wallpaper in the kitchen screamed at her. She knew she would have a lot of work to do to make her new house livable.
What is being personified? The ugly yellow wallpaper
Which human trait or quality is given? Screamed
10. William knew that he shouldn’t have eaten the last cookie out of the cookie jar. He knew that his father loved to eat chocolate chip cookies after work, but William ate the last one anyway. Now as he waited for his father to come home, guilt poked and chewed at William. As delicious as the cookie was, William now wished that he had never opened that cookie jar.
What is being personified? Guilt
Which human trait or quality is given? Poked and Chewed
Metaphors are a way to compare to by saying that one thing is another thing. For example, we say somebody is a fool. In
the past in Europe, a fool was a person who entertained the king or queen by doing silly things. The fool was a kind of clown. He often did crazy or stupid things to make people laugh. So when we call somebody a fool we really mean that he or she is doing something silly or stupid. We don’t really mean that they are somebody who entertains the king or queen. We are using a metaphor.
What do we mean when we say these things:
When we say someone is a pig we really mean that they are fat and guts all the food
When we call someone an angel we really mean that they are nice and do nothing wrong
If we say someone is a giant we really mean that they are very big and scary
When we call a man an ogre or a woman a witch we really mean that they are ugly
When somebody plays cards and we call them a shark, we really mean that are really good at cards
If we say that somebody is a volcano ready to explode, we really mean that are really angry but they are trying not to let it out
When we say somebody is bright we mean that they are really smart
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Metaphors are imaginative ways to describe something by comparing that thing to something else. For example, if I wanted to say that Dan is tall, I could
say that Dan is a giant. Use a metaphor to describe somebody who is:
He is as tall as a giraffe
Hamish is a kind dog
Korban is a fast cheater
Braydon is a slow turtle
Reuben is a smart robot
Joebob is a fat pig
Quinn is a sneaky mouse
Quinnton is a angry tiger
I'm a beautiful Lamborghini
Levi is a ugly pug dog
Taylah is a stubborn pig
Dave is a short munchkin
He is a thin twig
silly: bob is a dweeb
scared easily: Shelby is a chicken
He is a giant.
She is an angel.
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Pattern 1: like
Pattern 2: as
Examples
Examples
Similes are a way to compare two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’. For example, if I want to say that somebody swims well, I can say they swim like a fish because fish swim well. There are two basic patterns that you can use.
verb + like + noun
She swims like a fish.
He looks like an ogre.
She plays like a pro.
He walks like a duck.
She acts like a fool.
as + adjective + as + noun
He is as tall as a giant.
She is as fast as a rocket.
He is as graceful as a swan.
She is as sneaky as a fox.
He is as quiet as a mouse.
How could I say that somebody:
runs fast: He runs as fast as a cheater
is pretty: She is as pretty as a pig
jumps well: He jumps like a jumping bean
is strong: He as tough as a door
How could I say that something:
is hard:Its as hard as rock
feels soft: Its as soft as a sponge
is sweet
feels rough
is heavy
sounds noisy
is light
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Looney Lenny lue likes to lick lemons and limes.
Bussy bees bused around bob the builder with big black bouncy balls and a big backpack full of big bad bumble bees by the beach bob helps build houses with
Rooming Rodger Rabbit who roomed the really big red road with Ruby "the rat" Robinson, rudolf the Red nosed reindeer, robert the really retarded robber and reuben the runner.
Tuesday 14 June
WALT- use our senses to help describe an object
My marshmallow is shaped like a volcano with a light dusting of snow on the top.
My marshmallow smells like a perfume used by angles in heaven and a whole mound of sugar bigger then the salt one in the mount.